How to Use ream in a Sentence
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Never mind the reams of news accounts and countless hours of video footage.
—Caroline Petrow-Cohen, Dallas News, 31 July 2023
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That type of group running will make for a strong ream, but a frontrunner would help.
—Joe Magill, cleveland, 16 Aug. 2021
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Amazon sells packs of three reams of paper that should get you by for at least the first few months of school.
—Christopher Murray May Earn A Commission If You Buy Through Our Referral Links. This Content Was Created By A Team That Works Independently From The Fox Newsroom., FOXNews.com, 27 Aug. 2024
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But what cycling does have is reams of real-time data culled from the riders.
—Quartz Creative For The Ey Organization, Quartz, 27 Apr. 2023
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It won’t be swayed by the tedious work of sorting through a ream of documents.
—Emily Brindley, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2026
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Even with reams of data at hand, the final decisions still can come down to gut calls.
—Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 14 Dec. 2025
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But a good number of those projects are stalled as the legal process winds its way through courtrooms and reams of briefs.
—Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 20 Mar. 2023
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Almost every car or truck has reams of data that can be extracted.
—Natalie Morales, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2023
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There are bars of gold and reams of cash, multiple wigs, a cache of weapons and a giant sledgehammer.
—Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 7 July 2023
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What looks like diamonds but on closer inspection turns out to be little more than reams of cheap polyester?
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 31 Jan. 2024
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He's even crafted a makeshift stand for his laptop out of reams of printer paper to make video chats easier.
—Christal Hayes, USA TODAY, 18 Apr. 2020
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Place your laptop on a cardboard box, a stack of books, or a ream or two of paper to raise your laptop screen to eye level.
—Kathryn Vasel, CNN, 8 Dec. 2020
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Clunky insurance websites, reams of names with no personal details, and long hold times can be a pain in the ass.
—Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 3 Jan. 2024
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Chaos Lingers Manabe’s model has been confirmed by vast reams of data from a wide range of sources.
—Joseph Howlett, Quanta Magazine, 15 Sep. 2025
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Moore called a recess to review a four-hour video and reams of copies of articles and social media postings.
—Elizabeth Zavala, ExpressNews.com, 30 Oct. 2019
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There are reams and reams of amazing products at incredible discounts.
—Kat Romero, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2023
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Shelves were still lined with reams of photo records and old boxes of Fujifilm printing paper.
—M. Z. Adnan, New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2025
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There, Sam unleashes reams upon reams of monologues about their past at a teary Mary, who fills in a few gaps.
—Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 18 Apr. 2026
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At one point, the buildings were a printing press, and the long entry to the lobby is where trucks would pull in to unload reams of paper.
—Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Apr. 2026
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So, Dare Market ends up with reams of content for a single post and a cut of just under 7%.
—PC Magazine, 4 Nov. 2025
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On its website, Binance provides reams of detail on how the arrangements work.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 28 Mar. 2023
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All of this activity was monitored and archived by Athar’s ream of researchers.
—Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 3 July 2019
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Comscore wants to bring its reams of media-measurement data right to the people who may be included in it.
—Brian Steinberg, Variety, 16 Sep. 2025
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On the other side, customers scrawl their own question or quote onto a giant ream of construction paper.
—Jackie Burrell, The Mercury News, 8 June 2019
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Free or discounted phone deals are often full of nasty terms and conditions, buried in reams of legal mumbo-jumbo.
—K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 2 July 2026
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Sure, the films have always had human casts to fight the creatures or flee from them or deliver reams of exposition about them.
—Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Nov. 2023
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But what has always separated Madge from reams of cheap rave garbage is exquisite taste and sheer star power.
—Harry Tafoya, Pitchfork, 1 May 2026
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There, Sam unleashes reams upon reams of pent-up monologuing about their past while a teary Mary fills in a few gaps.
—Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2026
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Black Knight also sees reams of price data as the prime software provider for multiple-listing services.
—Shawn Tully, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2023
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Trump preached about an America in decline despite reams of evidence to the contrary.
—Philip Elliott, Time, 24 Sep. 2025
- He got reamed in the press for his comments.
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The plumbers come out about once a year to ream the pipes, usually in the spring.
—Caitlin R. McGlade, Sun-Sentinel.com, 31 Aug. 2017
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But when you get reamed in a sketch or online or however, that s--t stings.
—Kayla Keegan, Good Housekeeping, 22 Dec. 2019
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There are a multitude of tools to ream or swage the crimp out of the primer pocket.
—Bryce M. Towsley, Field & Stream, 23 June 2020
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But when you get reamed in a sketch or online or however, that s—t staaaangs.
—Dan Heching, CNN, 29 June 2024
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One end of the Easy Out is a stubby, reaming-style drill bit.
—Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 8 Nov. 2018
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Because that movie was both a failure in the box office and it got reamed by critics.
—Matt Grobar, Deadline, 14 Nov. 2025
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Plus, Rip got to ream out the poor preacher who suggested doing a prayer.
—Kathryn Vanarendonk, Vulture, 16 Dec. 2024
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Thus, the screw stays put but the extractor continues to turn, reaming out the hole in the process.
—Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 8 Nov. 2018
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Now the stars are being refurbished, the aged pipes reamed clean and the new pump wrangled into its damp pit.
—Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 9 July 2017
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During our Wednesday phone calls, Freddie would ream me out for bad posture.
—Sandra Sobieraj Westfall, Peoplemag, 18 Jan. 2023
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As this is happening, Veronica reams Archie for spilling the beans about Pop's.
—Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 14 Mar. 2018
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When Greg seems more concerned about when his son can get back on the field than just being there for his scared kid, Javadi reams him out.
—Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2025
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Morticia reams Thing out for failing to be loyal to her and Gomez; Thing is tired of being treated like a servant.
—Jessica M. Goldstein, Vulture, 6 Aug. 2025
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Drenched in dread, Wyeth’s story is told mainly by an anonymous narrator via 84 flashback scenes reamed with abrupt, enigmatic silences.
—J. Michael Lennon, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2019
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During Pike’s first year as a starter, he was frequently reamed out on the sideline by Kelly for not making what Kelly thought was the correct read.
—Bill Koch, Cincinnati.com, 11 Oct. 2019
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Even after getting reamed out by his fellow-Republicans, Tuberville refused to relent on his blockade.
—Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2023
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Kafka just survived a second season in which he was frequently reamed out, constantly second-guessed, marginalized and connected to one of the worst offenses in football.
—Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 4 Feb. 2024
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Obviously, Saturday night was not our best performance and some coaches would ream you and dig into individuals, but that doesn’t help anyone.
—Julian Cardillo, Pro Soccer USA, 16 June 2019
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Alongside his fellow guest, Finneas, Koch provided out-of-pocket soundbites, reamed out some former enemies, and was generally just on one.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 15 Oct. 2024
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That day on the Hill, Smith sat patiently while the chair reamed his company for the shameful neglect that ended up weakening national security.
—Steven Levy, WIRED, 21 Nov. 2024
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His mentor, top opposition leader Maria Corina Machado, decided to reaming in hiding inside the country.
—Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald, 6 Jan. 2025
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